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Canada cellular Providers
Whether you are an existing Canada cellular phone user or looking for your first wireless phone, our goal in this website is to provide you with information about the Canada cellular market.

Rogers has been an excellent cellular phone provider in Calgary for many years. Rogers has stood by their customers through the difficult times and has improved with technology advances. Rogers customer service continues to improve every year with additional staff being added. Rogers has been an excellent supporter of Calgary events and very generous within the local community. Calgary continues to grow in cellular users per capita with Rogers as a supplier. If you decide to read no further, you will not be disappointed with Rogers and their cellular services.

Rogers cellular Coverage
The first question every cellular phone user in Calgary needs to ask is, “Where do I need my Rogers cellular phone to work?” Well the quick answer of course is “Everywhere!” Looking at a Canada coverage map, most of the cellular carriers are only providing cellular coverage in cities and major highways. If you are planning a trip outside of Calgary to somewhere way off the beaten path and plan to be in these areas often, refer to the Rogers cellular coverage map on the Rogers website. On your Internet search engine, type in Rogers coverage.

Rogers cellular Rate Plans
Rogers offers a wide variety of cellular rate plans in the Calgary market. Once you are satisfied that Rogers can meet your cellular coverage requirements, how much you are paying is the next order of business. The Canada cellular providers typically break down their fees in the following ways:

•An individual user will buy a bundle of minutes each month for a set price and an overcharge for every additional minute. These plans will run from the low hundreds of minutes per month to 3-5000 minutes. Rogers offers a wide variety of individual plans.

•Family plans are designed to pool a bundle of phones together under one invoice. The airtime minutes can be used by anyone in the family plan group. The invoice is broken down to each phone number so you can track each phone and user activity.

•Business cellular bundles, like the family plan, are designed to issue an invoice to the business owner. The users get the benefit of more minutes in the pool and if one person is using more time than another, the minutes are not wasted. This is a good management tool for business. Once again, the person paying the bill will get a breakdown of each user’s minutes.

•The Rogers “Pay as you go” plans are designed, like the name, to buy minutes as you use them. Rogers offers this great program for a child, student or someone that does not use a cellular phone all the time. Pay as you go is also great for people with credit rating issues. When shopping at Rogers for this program, watch for the expiry date on your minutes. If you only use the phone 10 minutes a month and your pay as you go card expires every 30 days, you are wasting your money.

There is a cellular phone plan to suit every individual. Additional minutes are available through Rogers, but are more expensive if they are not built into the cellular plan. A regular cellular call is 3-5 minutes. If you make 5 calls a day on average at 5 minutes each, you need 750 minutes. It does not take long to run up 1,000 minutes a month if you want to chat with friends and family. Keep this in mind when deciding on a plan that fits you. Rogers offers free evenings and weekends in Calgary. To ensure that you don’t worry about the cost of using your cellular phone on weekends, this is the plan for you. Free evening and weekends are great within the family plan. Children are usually very busy with activities, dealing with parties and their friends. Giving your phone to your child and not having to worry if they will run up your airtime minutes is well worth having the weekend package. Free evenings and weekends are a great perk for employees. When there are off for the weekend, they have a free phone. It is an inexpensive company benefit for your staff.

The Rogers cellular Phone
Rogers supplies Calgary a wide variety of cellular phone models. Rogers changes their cellular phones often as new products come on the market. The Nokia cellular phone is the most common phone that we see in Calgary. Nokia has approximately 40% of the world cellular market and the balance is made up by Motorola, Sharp, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Siemens, LG, NEC, Sanyo and Audiovox to name a few.

With all of the choices that Rogers can offer and the ever changing technology in cellular products, here is a list to go through when choosing a phone in Calgary. All handheld phones are governed not to exceed .6 watts. Power output and battery life in digital phones are not comparable issues with a cellular phone. All of the providers listed above build excellent products. Listed below are features that are not in all cellular phones:

•Voice recognition (say the name of the person you are calling and the phone dials the number)
•A Video camera build into the phone
•A digital camera built into the cellular phone
•Bluetooth enabled (Bluetooth is a wireless connection to a headset or laptop)

Camera phones are quickly coming down in price with Rogers and are being added to the “free phone” grouping with a contract. Video and Bluetooth technology are becoming more common with the newly released Rogers phones.

Rogers cellular Accessories
Rogers offers all of the brand name cellular accessories in their Calgary stores and on the Internet. While the brand name accessories usually cost more, they also last longer. The Internet is full of cheap cellular accessory suppliers. Most of these products are made in China and are inexpensive for a good reason!

Rogers will provide you with a warranty period on your vehicle lighter cable or Bluetooth headset and stock the after market products as well. Headsets are becoming more popular every day. As more countries talking about stopping the use of your cellular when driving, headsets are a great alterative.

Bluetooth is an old technology that has finally got the recognition it deserves. Bluetooth is like the remote control on your T.V. It is sending a signal to something wirelessly. The most common uses of Bluetooth are wireless headsets and laptops. Bluetooth works about 10 meters away from the cellular phone. The wireless headsets are great when driving or walking around. The old headsets had the wire running from your earpiece or headset to the cellular. I’ve banged the cable many times and ripped the earpiece out on my ear. The worst time was walking out of a mall and having the cable hook on the door handle. That one hurt. Most of the cellular phones are now coming out with Bluetooth. Even if you do not plan on using this feature today, you may in the future.

A carry case for a cellular phone is a must! The plastic screens on cellular phones do scratch very easily. I have gone without a case on my phone and within a year could hardly see the numbers on the front. I did drop it a few times as well. That is also a common problem. A carry case will keep the cellular phone secured to your hip or safe inside a purse.

There are lots of other fun accessories for your cellular phone that you can look at on the web or in your local Rogers store. The items mentioned above are very practical and will extend the life of your cellular and save you time and trouble using your phone.

The Rogers network
Rogers continues to improve its network in the Calgary market. The speed for email and the internet gadgets get better every year. Blackberry or Palm devices are also instant when using email on the Rogers system. We believe that Rogers will lead the market in Calgary for offering the fastest cellular network available. Rogers can offer video now over cellular and will someday takeover the cable and hardwire Internet providers. (My opinion only)

Korea just announced a deal to provide television over cellular phones. It is already up and running in Korea. The Canada market will have this service soon as well as real time video. What I mean by real time video instead of regular video is while you are walking around with your phone; in this example let’s say a realtor is showing a house to someone over the Internet thousands of kilometers away. As the realtor walks around with the phone on, video running, room to room, the people are watching the presentation as it happens over the Internet. This takes allot of cellular bandwidth to show the presentation and have the picture moving so it is not jerky.

The phone carriers are racing to provide the fastest network. Choosing which product to go with is difficult. Rogers has the management team and engineering skills to make the right choices for Calgary for today and into the future.

Rogers Vehicle tracking
The move is on by all cellular carriers to offer AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) to the Calgary market. Rogers can offer this service from the handset to the tower, up to the GPS satellite in space and back to the Internet map in seconds. The benefits to business, personal, emergency services and rental car companies are endless and this is just to name a few.

Business can find the closest employee to the next job. Couriers can dispatch the closest driver, 911 services know where the call is coming from when someone is in distress. Want to know where you’re teenager is? This product can be used for the “Big Brother.”

In the future as more companies start using GPS, city buses and school buses will all have AVL? Go on the internet and watch the bus on your computer.

Rogers computer connections
Calgary can now use a simple data cable or a Bluetooth device on a cellular to laptop surf the web. Speeds are getting faster everyday using Rogers for the data connection. If you have not tried it lately, you will be pleasantly surprised. Rogers will help you when you are on the road to send and receive your mail. Send file attachments, faxes, schedule meetings, accessing your office computer network or just surfing the web, traveling has never been so close to home.

Thank you for taking the time to read through our product information on Rogers in the Calgary cellular phone market. We hope that our information has helped you in some way to make the right decision for your cellular phone requirements. We will continue to update this website as improvements in the cellular phone market evolves. All the best to you and yours...